Proximity has a disproportionate effect on perception.

Was catching up with one of our SF based eco founders who is building a suite of AI products in the data labelling/adtech space with a bunch of inbound from large corps + startups.
Their tech works, is generating real results for companies, and the team has lots of runway, but he was worried that they aren't doing enough (especially because of how fast everything around them is moving in SF/AI).
Meanwhile there's infinite crypto companies folding or just absolutely coasting because the market doesn't like our coins anymore.
tl;dr is - your environment dictates your behaviour. I'd rather have the dude tweaking out over not grinding hard enough in SF than the dude posted up waiting for the bull market in Dubai any day of the week.